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network. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, slender, 

 causing the fruit to be pendent. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1076. 



Many trees of the Pawsan are found in the south-east or 

 Ryeland district of Herefordshire, which have apparently 

 stood more than a century. Its pulp is exceedingly rich 

 and yellow, and in some seasons it afiords cider of the very 

 finest quality. Its name cannot be traced to any probable 

 source. 



208. Red Must. Pom. Heref. t. 4. 



Fruit nearly, if not quite, the largest cider apple cultivated 

 in Herefordshire. It is rather broad and flattish, a little 

 irregular at its base, which is hollow. »S7«/A: slender. Crown 

 sunk. Eye deep, with a stout erect calyx. Skin greenish 

 yellow on the shaded side, with a deep rosy colour where 

 exposed to the sun, and shaded with a darker red. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1064. 



Ray has both a Red and a White Must apple among his 

 cider fruit. The Red Must has been more extensively cul- 

 tivated in Herefordshire than it is at present. Its cider has 

 always been held in estimation ; and although frequently 

 thin of itself, when its fruit has been pressed with others, 

 the cider has been much superior to that which could have 

 been obtained from those sorts if pressed alone. It appears 

 to be a native of Herefordshire, the deep soils of which pro- 

 duce trees of considerable magnitude. 



209. Redstreak. Pom. Hcref. t. 1. 



Fruit nearly globular, but narrowed at the crown. Eye 

 small, with a converging calyx. Stalk slender. Skin yel- 

 lowish gold colour, but of a vermillion red where exposed to 

 the sun, with deeper streaks, which are more or less marked 

 all around the fruit. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1079. 



Mr. Knight, the author of the very interesting Pomona 

 Herefordtnsis, is of opinion that the Redstreak Vvas the first 

 fine cider apple that was cultivated in Herefordshire, or 

 probably in England ; and thinks it may be doubted, whe- 

 ther excellent cider was ever made in any country previous 

 to the existence of this apple. 



It is unquesfionably a native of Herefordshire, and is sup- 

 posed to have been raised from seed by Lord Scudamore in 

 the beginning of the seventeenth century. When it began 

 to be first cultivated, it was called Scudamore^s Crab^ and 

 he certainly first pointed out its excellence to the Hereford- 



